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balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 4:28 PM

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I know there is a way to do this, but I am just getting back into printing after a 2 year hiatus. I'm trying to configure my 2.4r2 to keep the z stepper motors running when a print finishes. I am printing one print after another and I want to avoid having the klippy macro run every single time.

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 4:39 PM

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just...don't turn them off...

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there's probably an M84 or something in your print_end macro that's turning off all the motors

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get rid of it, and you should be set

queen widget Jun 17, 2024, 4:48 PM

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There could be an M18 command as well (does the same thing as M84), though just about all code examples you may have gotten a print_end macro from will use M84.

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If you want to turn off only specific steppers (where something like M84 E doesn't seem to work, though it does in for example Marlin), you can do SET_STEPPER_ENABLE STEPPER=extruder ENABLE=0

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 4:58 PM

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I don'r see anything like those in here

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Should I just add M84 X Y E?

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:07 PM

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balmy nexus Should I just add M84 X Y E?

thats not a thing

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maybe there's something in the actual slicer end code?

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:09 PM

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yeah, I checked there too along with all of the cfgs

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livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:10 PM

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only other thing would be are you sure they're turning off immediately? could it just be a short idle timeout fireing, say, 10 minutes after the end of the print?

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:10 PM

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immediately

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:11 PM

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hmm

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strange

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:11 PM

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Maybe try to see if klicky has been updated? Maybe that might fix it?

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:11 PM

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got a klipper log?

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I really don't think klicky has anything to do with anything

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:13 PM

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is that klippy.log?

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:13 PM

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yep

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:13 PM

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📎 klippy.log

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:18 PM

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forgive me, but can I ask a really silly question: how do you know the motors turned off? (I just really don't see any reason they would, based on this config)

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:20 PM

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Honestly, Im just assuming they are based on it running the homing routine and QGL each and every print. and when I swap filaments sometimes, i can feel the gantry drop, but i'll double check the immediately after this next print ends in 37m

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:23 PM

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I wouldn't assume that at all: there's nothing in your start code that does any decision making, it just runs through the whole thing...

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:25 PM

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So what could it be? Sorry, I don't have much experience with coding and g-code and such

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:26 PM

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Sorry, I'm not following.

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Your start_code doesn't check whether things are already homed or not

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:27 PM

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oh! got ya!

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:27 PM

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Your start code simply runs through all the calibration steps every time it is run

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:28 PM

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Is there a way to tell it to check and skip if it is already homed and leveled?

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:29 PM

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Its possible, yes. There are examples around, though I'm not sure I have them at my fingertips right now

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:30 PM

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okie dokie I'll see if I can find anything. Thanks for the help!

livid flax Jun 17, 2024, 5:31 PM

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There's cg28 here https://docs.vorondesign.com/community/macros/macros/120decibell.html

Voron Documentation

120decibell macros

Voron Official and Community Documentation

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 5:31 PM

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ty!

queen widget Jun 17, 2024, 8:17 PM

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I did something like

    QUAD_GANTRY_LEVEL
{% endif %}```
to avoid unnecessary qgl stuff.

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(though I guess one probably could do the slightly neater {% if !printer.quad_gantry_level.applied %}), i think that state is stored as a boolean)

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If you just want to quickly check if printer is homed / qgl'ed, you can just look at the homing buttons in the UI (in the "toolhead" section on the dashboard). At least in my mainsail (with the default color scheme), they are blue if homed/leveled, otherwise yellow. And as long as the steppers are kept enabled, they "homing state" is still valid.

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 8:21 PM

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Thx! I'll try that out. I tried another example with no luck. This one didn't work after restart.

[gcode_macro CQGL]
gcode:
{% if printer.quad_gantry_level.applied == False %}
{% if "xyz" not in printer.toolhead.homed_axes %}
G28 ; home if not already homed
{% endif %}
QUAD_GANTRY_LEVEL
G28 Z
{% endif %}

queen widget Jun 17, 2024, 8:23 PM

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by "restart", do you mean "starting a second print"? if you actually restart klipper, it will forget it's homing/qgl state.

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 8:24 PM

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I mean restart the printer after saving the printer.cfg, followed by a manual home and QGL followed by trying to print a file.

queen widget Jun 17, 2024, 8:26 PM

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The gcode you posted earlier calls G32 from print_start, what does that do? In my example config (that I forgot where I got it from), G32 does an "unconditional" full home (G28) and QGL regardless of what has already been done. I just don't call G32 from print_start though.

balmy nexus Jun 17, 2024, 8:29 PM

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Honestly, I think that was default from wherever I got the compiled FW from. I never messed with changing settings other than basic setup such as assigning the correct mobo pins and such.

queen widget Jun 17, 2024, 8:36 PM

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If you've added that CQGL macro, it won't do anything if print_start still calls a "dumb" G32 macro instead. Either
• Make G32 do what you want (with "conditional" homing/qgl), maybe call that version CG32 or something (for "conditional") and call that from print_start
• Have print_start call CQGL instead (and the G28 commands you want) and not use G32
• Put the entire homing code you want in print_start and don't call G32 or CQGL or other such macros (what I did)

They'll all accomplish the same thing, whatever makes sense to you.

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